Apple Macs: Objects of devotion
updated 01:40 pm EST, Thu January 13, 2005
Macs: Objects of devotion
BBC correspondent Stephen Evans says that offering an object of devotion, Apple's Macintosh: " It's tempting to think that Steve Jobs is some sort of religious leader rather than the chief executive of a rather successful computer company....Lots of companies make good products but they don't attract the kind of religious zeal that Mac inspires....I get stalked, though, by colleagues who insist on telling me how much better their iPod is than my Dell Jukebox, even as the reviews say the battery life of an iPod isn't the best around. Or how I should throw my PC away and get a Mac. They may be right. It's just that some of the message is in the marketing."
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Mac "zealots"
Maybe if you were labelled ignorant and brainwashed by people who are less knowledgable about the subject than you are, you might get a bit defensive and zealous too. Mac users have always been discriminated against and shut out of places where they could coexist easily. I knew a student that was told he couldn't use his Mac to dial into the university's internet provider (using PPP) because they didn't want AppleTalk packets flooding their network. With the BS that many Mac users face everyday, it's no wonder they get a bit of an attitude. I'm not saying it's smart to act that way, but it's perfectly explainable.
The guy answers his own question but doesn't even realize it. "colleagues who insist on telling me how much better their iPod is than my Dell Jukebox, even as the reviews say the battery life of an iPod isn't the best around" Gee, then instead of labelling us as zealots, you would think he might wonder if there is more to the iPod than a battery life spec.